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A ella se le encarga trabajar como «puente»: vivir con, ayudar y supervisar al expatriado conocido como «1847» o comandante Graham Gore. En lo que respecta a la historia, el comandante Gore murió en la condenada expedición de Sir John Franklin al Ártico en 1845, por lo que está un poco desorientado al vivir con una mujer soltera que muestra regularmente sus pantorrillas, rodeado de conceptos extravagantes como «lavadora», «Spotify» o «el colapso del Imperio Británico». Pero con un apetito por descubrir, un hábito de fumar siete cigarrillos al día y el apoyo de un encantador y caótico elenco de compañeros expatriados, pronto se adapta. Pero lo que el puente pensó que sería, en el mejor de los casos, una complicada e incómoda dinámica de compañeros de piso, evoluciona hacia algo mucho más profundo.

Una historia irresistible de intriga, secretos familiares y obsesión. París, 21 de agosto de 1911. Un hombre irrumpe de noche en el museo del Louvre y roba la Mona Lisa. El cuadro no se recupera hasta dos años después, en Florencia. Florencia, 2019. El historiador del arte Luke Perrone visita la legendaria biblioteca de la Basílica de San Lorenzo en Florencia. Un coleccionista acaba de encontrar el diario de su bisabuelo Vincent, Vincenzo Perugia, el ladrón de la Mona Lisa con el que espera dar respuesta a tantas preguntas alrededor del infame acto protagonizado por su antepasado: ¿quién ordenó el robo? ¿y por qué? Acompañado por un inspector de la Interpol y una enigmática joven que conoce en Florencia, Luke se embarca en una búsqueda por diversas ciudades y no tardará en comprender hasta qué punto su investigación pone en peligro a misteriosos adversarios, dispuestos a todo para dejar en la sombra una inquietante verdad.

Today’s workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink, as our lifespans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed is no longer enough. It’s time for a new playbook.

Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don’t the police come and investigate? When the local priest’s housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight—and one of the world’s most ruthless criminal syndicates—The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

The Stoics understood that if you can control your reactions and manage your emotions, you can achieve success. The same principles apply to our financial lives today. The greatest investors approach the markets with discipline, emotional distance, and self-mastery—lessons that the Stoics have been teaching us for thousands of years.

In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates “the River,” the community of like-minded people whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. By immersing himself in the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and many others, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI. Most of us don’t have traits commonly found in the River: high tolerance for risk, appreciation of uncertainty, affinity for numbers—paired with an instinctive distrust of conventional wisdom and a competitive drive so intense it can border on irrational. For those in the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it. People in the River have increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset—and the flaws in their thinking— is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. Taking us behind the scenes from casinos to venture capital firms, and from the FTX inner sanctum to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of power bro­kers and risk-takers.